Stuff about, you know, puzzles

Monthly Archives: February 2010

Every now and then, I come across the phrase “I’m sick of codes” or “We wanted to write an event that didn’t use codes at all” or something to that effect. Every time I do, I almost want to shout “Codes are what make puzzle hunts possible! Without them, my favorite participation event would… not… […]

People seem to want there to be a puzzle hunt forum where they can gather to post and discuss different issues. However, when there is one, they rarely post. Why? I think it’s because there’s already one, but spread across the Internet. Instead of new topics, people write blogs. Instead of posts responding to topics, […]

Last night at the GC Summit, Scott Blomquist mentioned that he had taken down the puzzlehunters.com forum due to spam abuse. As an alternative, he mentioned maybe using the forum I’d been hosting, though embarrassingly enough, I couldn’t remember the address when asked. I got home and found out why: It’s been offline for nearly […]

2009 was an amazingly full year of puzzle hunts. It seemed like there was one practically every month. It. Was. Awesome. I look at the upcoming events section of The Smoking GNU website, and apart from DASH 2, all I see is a lot of To Be Determined (TBD). Still, it looks like we could […]

(Note: I only took around five photos during this hunt, therefore many of those below are thanks to Amy aka amster_girl, who holds the copyright. Used with permission.) When the Different Area Same Hunt (DASH) was announced, there were a few things our team needed to sort out before registering. Many of the teams we […]